Rubyee

We all have dreams, and mostly if we manage to remember them, we forget them by the end of the day. But lately I have been having dreams that stick with me for weeks.

Recently, I have had a dream where my family is trapped under an overpass that is filling with water. I keep trying to swim over to save them, but I am dragged under the water by creatures that will not let me out until I smash these black blocks that represent my self-judgement.

Last night, I had a dream that my long term boyfriend was going to leave me because I was taking him for granted.

I rarely have these vivid dreams that make some sort of sense and stick with me this long. I do remember a lot of dreams from my childhood that are like this, but I can't really get a lesson out of them.

The lessons learned from recent dreams- let go of self judgement and doubt and don't take loved ones for granted.

So, do you have dreams that you learn from?

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amonkie

My dreams tend to be subconscious thoughts getting a chance to manifest... when I can remember them, sometimes having seen myself saying or doing something in a dream solidifies the thought I CAN actually do them. The extra confidence is something that I draw on when needed.

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ShaniFaye

I have no idea what I would learn from my dreams...here are a few scenes from some recent ones

Im in a fight with my ex husband because he's changing the tires on my car in the middle of the mall

Im riding in a limosine that has built in fish tanks with John Cusak

Im walking in the woods alone at night and come upon Johnny Depp hanging upside from a tree with a rubber chicken up his butt

Im flying an airplane (as in Im the pilot) and all the passengers are people I went to high school with...Dave shows up outside the plane...reaches thru the window and pulls me out of the plane just before it crashes

Dave ditches me on our wedding day to go see a sneak preview screening of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and takes another woman with him to see it

I leave the church right before the ceremony time to drive 50 miles to get BBQ


i dream too much lol

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aberkok

I definitely remember coming up with a solution to a puzzle in a computer game in a dream once! I don't remember the game, but I remember being stuck all day only to wake up and try the idea that came to me in my dream. It worked!

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I learn from my dreams in the sense that they help me to better understand my subconscious. My daily stress levels manifest themselves very clearly in my dreams, in one way or another, and I learn a lot about what I'm putting my body through during its conscious state. Dreams seem to be my brain and body's way of giving me warning signals about the decisions I'm making during waking hours. Now, whether or not I act on that information is a different story...

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Siege

My dreams usually involve me being in some form of conflict that I cannot imagine being in in real life. But if I ever get into said situations, hopefully I will have learned something.


But then again, I forget about 99.3% of my dreams anyway.

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Rodney

Similar for me; I remember very few dreams, but the few that I remembered quite clearly upon waking were dreams in which my subconscious was sending me a strong message about how I felt about something.

I was never all that happy in my old profession, and I changed jobs a lot looking for the "perfect" employer. Finally, I started working on a contract basis and changed jobs every few months. Then I had a very clear dream in which I was kidnapped by businessmen! They held me prisoner for months, and every so often we'd change location. They'd blindfold me and take us on a long drive; when they took off the blindfold, we'd be at another hideout.

They made it very clear that I could be "free" if I'd join them. But I preferred to be captive to being one of them. One day I woke up and they were all gone. The doors were wide open. I wandered outside and found that I was in a small town on an island. I wandered around and found that all the other houses I'd been captive in were just a couple of blocks apart! I woke up with this thought in my head: "You can move from house to house, but it's always the same old town."

At that point, I started thinking seriously about changing careers!

JustJess

Hm. If I am to learn anything from my dreams... it's that I should start taking karate and learning to work firearms.
All (okay, 95%) of my dreams are conflicts, usually nightmares. I'm fighting someone for my life, or the lives of my family. They're very detailed... while there I know why I'm there, and sometimes why they're trying to kill me. I usually wake myself up because my body has jerked as if I'm actually fighting someone, or because the adrenaline becomes too high for sleeping. I have lots of recurring nightmares, but no discernible cause.

I think it's genetic. My grandmother used to wake up, swearing up and down that there was a burglar outside the window!

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ShaniFaye

ratbastid or lurkette is gonna have to tell me if me learning that Rat has a thing for having sex in water is true or not....cause I sure do dream about that a lot hehehe

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streak_56

I don't think I learn anything from mine.... being the lead guitarist from the Scopions and playing "rock you like a hurricane." Running off cliffs.... playing hockey..... things like that. Hmm.... I wonder whatever I could learn?

Rubyee

Don't get me wrong- I don't learn from all of my dreams. I usually have three to four a night. I am cursed to remember every dream I have upon waking, and can usually hold on to one or two for a couple of days.

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anti fishstick

yes I have had dreams I learn from but not in a long while. When it happens though, It's so surreal. I can tell when a dream is 'significant' by how vivid it is and how much it stands out to me. Sometimes, I'll have a series of dreams with the same sorts of themes to get my attention, and that's when I really start to wonder what they mean. Other times, the dreams are so symbolic that I can understand right away they're important and can usually figure it out pretty quickly. When it happens, it's a big a-ha! moment.

Recently, I've been having semi-vivid dreams about falling. In one, I was climbing up a long ladder in an icy, wintery setting. It seemed to be a giant slide of some sort, without the actual slide part. Other people were also climbing this ladder and when they reached the top, they jumped and a group of people would catch your fall. I was scared to do it but eventually, I did. In another, I was in a big building and had to fall down a tall balcony w/ squishy gym mats to catch my fall. I haven't figured out what both of these dreams mean, if they do at all.

I've noticed that most my significant dreams happen during a crossroads in my life. This can include major breakups, graduation (like now), etc. Perhaps the falling dreams can be interpreted as: it is ok to fear the unknown because there will always be something to 'catch your fall'?

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Rubyee

Nice inerpretation, anti fishstick.

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kenshee

Back when I was still learning more about computers (assembling,troubleshooting), I would usually dream about the things that could be done to fix my PC. So upon waking up, I would just try to remember those things and follow them.

I guess I fix my problems in dreams when I can't fix them in real life.

fatmanforprez

i can do you one better not only do i learn things in my sleep i implement my learnings while still unconsious. If I am to get a proper amount of sleep then I will spend anywhere from 30 mins to 2 hrs (the high end is for saturday mornings with no plans) able to hear but still unconsious, if I make a serious effort I may be able to wake myself (as a side not vision returns consiousness but audio stimulation does not perhaps due to the fact that i sleep in a perfectly dark room but cant get it soundproofed).

Naturally being a college student this is a thing of the past, now im more likely to be suffereing from constant sleep dep, however if while i am being woken i can hold entire conversations in my unconsious state the anwsers i give may or may not have anyhting to do with whats said and i have many a time experianced the odd feeling of saying something relizing i just said it and knowing it made no sense to whoever was wakign me (usually mum). On the flip note when i am so rudely awakened by the maternal parental unit it isnt uncommon for me to have said no for yes or "it is understood to be expected that midgets at barbeques will stamp you with wildflowers" for no.

As for the learning people have mention computer problems and video games but i have also fixed design and engineering problems, social problems, ohh yeah and i am a lucid dreamer by compulsion who is blissfully having given up that ability. And you have no idea how cool it is to be stuck on a level of Splinter Cell (the original still the hardest) completely unable to pull of my american ninja skillz so i pause loose consiousness and wake to the mission accomplished screen (and was able to beat it after that too). It is soo freaking awesome lucid dreaming is a novelty but the shit i pull in my sleep is soooo freakign awesome.

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Johnny Pyro

I don't think I learn anything from them, but last week I had a sex dream about this hot girl who cleans the factory offices at night. She only stays about an hour, but everybody looks at her when shes there. Its like a prison there sometimes. Most of the women who work at the factory are pretty..........pretty manly! So, she is a sight for sore eyes. Anyways, ever since I had that dream about her, its all I can think about. I'm obsessed! Its like I'm in love with her. Its weird.

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krwlz

I often (and it always gives me the shivers) will be working along at school, work, or just hanging out with someone, and will have a scene from a dream a night or two before repeat it's self.

I had a dream once, where I was helping my uncle frame in part of a house (I knew I was going to be helping with this before hand, so thats where that probably came from) and another kid with no shirt on I didn't recognize looked up at my uncle and said word for word "Hey, you got a level we can throw on this just because...?"

In and of it's self, no big deal, but that exact scene, with the exact same kid (Corbet, a friend of my cousins I had only met once previous to this) happened, with him asking my uncle the same question in the exact same words...

I have shit like this happen once or twice a year, but I get deja vu probably 3 times a week, and my thoughts are that it is the same thing happening, I just dont consiously remember the dream.

5757

I've been drinking since I was about 16. It's amazing that in the last 7 years I have never went swimming while Ive been completely shit-faced. My recent dream taught me a lesson. Do not jump into the ocean if there is ANY alcohol in the system. So yeah, I learn from my dreams.

Johnny Pyro- I love sex dreams! Talk about learning from dreams! I can flip through a Kama Sutra 50 positions book and in my dreams I can try out every position!! It's great.

You have all got to try Lucid Dreaming.

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